Twice a day at the Holy Vajrassana Temple at 6:00 am and 5 pm, we reflect on our cultivation as well as pay our respect to various Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and express our gratitude for Their blessings and teachings. We also offer merit to those with whom we wish to share our blessings. The schedule may vary when we have formal retreats and/or classes, but most of the chants we use are in this book.
If you have attended retreats or dharma assemblies at the Holy Vajrassana Temple, you have probably used our chant book and you may have noticed that it is evolving. We started with pretty much what our other temples did only we tried to make it bilingual, doing many chants in both English and Chinese and sometimes in Spanish and/or Tibetan. The Buddha Master told us we should understand the meaning of what we chant, so overtime we have replaced older more traditional Chinese chants with ones that reflect the foundational teachings of the Buddha so we could reflect on our cultivation each day as well as pay our respect to various Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and express our gratitude for their blessings and teachings. Disciples have requested copies for their own use or to take back to their dharma centers and temples. We encourage that. If you would like a PDF file of the most current edition that will also contain annotation for bells, drums, and gongs, please let us know and we will send you the file for you to download.
I am hopeful that after we have studied all of the “128 Evil and Erroneous Views,” we will use each of the major chants as blog articles, exploring their meaning, origins, and purpose.
CLICK to read the Holy Vajrasana Temple Chant Book.
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